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Beach Boys Britain Celebrates The Release Of Bambu And Welcomes Stevie Kalinich

“BAMBUZLED”/”GALACTIC SYMPHONIES”

SATURDAY, JULY 12TH 2008

COME AND HELP US CELEBRATE!

The release of Dennis Wilson’s Album is cause enough to have a celebration, but coupled with the premiere Midlands performance of the Stephen J. Kalinich/Richard Durrant work, “Galactic Symphonies”, we would like to invite you to this Day of Celebration, in the Home Town of Beach Boys Britain and the place where “Great Things” have happened before, at The Wycliffe Rooms…such as the announcement by Jeffrey Foskett that “SMiLE” was INDEED going to be performed, firstly and foremost in this country…and then the very first harmony workshop conducted by the amazingly talented Alan Boyd…so who knows what ELSE the Fates have in store for us!

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06.29.2008 • Dennis Wilson • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink

Pacific Ocean Blue Racks Up Impressive Sales More Than 30 Years After Its Original Debut

PR NEWSWIRE, NEW YORK, June 25 --Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition (Caribou/Epic/Legacy), the 30th anniversary reissue of the long-out-of-print musical masterpiece from the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson, is blowing up both in the States and worldwide following its US release last Tuesday, June 17, 2008.

Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition -- a two-CD collection featuring the original album in its entirety as well as bonus tracks and the first official release of songs from Bambu, Wilson's intended follow-up -- was the # 4 rock release for Amazon.com on the day of release. The album is already a top-seller in the UK and Europe having debuted at # 16 on the UK Album Chart, # 67 in the Netherlands, # 71 in Ireland, and rocketing to #5 in Norway. These feats are all the more remarkable considering that Pacific Ocean Blue was originally released more than 30 years ago and that these are current, not catalog charts.

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06.25.2008 • Dennis Wilson • 2 feedbacks » • PermalinkPermalink

PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE Returns On Gatefold Triple LP

"Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen." - Dennis Wilson

Arrives in stores June 17, 2008, on CD from Caribou/Epic/Legacy and a gatefold triple LP edition from Sundazed Music

Much is made of his older brother Brian's tortured genius, but Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson had his own deeply artistic statement to make-one he made with moody, heartrending beauty and fathomless, soulful introspection on his 1977 masterpiece, Pacific Ocean Blue. Besides being the first solo album by a member of the Beach Boys, Pacific Ocean Blue is a lost classic of '70s West Coast rock, a richly orchestrated opus that swaths the singer-songwriter's delicate and profoundly personal observations in epic, wide-screen arrangements that easily match the drama of the celluloid blockbusters made in his Hollywood back yard.

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Pacific Ocean Blue

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05.12.2008 • Dennis Wilson • 2 feedbacks » • PermalinkPermalink

POB Preorder Available From Amazon

04.20.2008 • Dennis Wilson • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink

POB Track List

Legacy Recordings has issued a press release that features the track list for the reissued PACIFIC OCEAN BLUES:

"In September of 1977 Dennis Wilson released what is still today, in my opinion, the best solo album ever released by a Beach Boy (yeah, sorry Brian) called Pacific Ocean Blue. After its initial release, the record was cut out in 1979 and while it appeared briefly on CD for a few months in 1991, it’s been out of print ever since."

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03.19.2008 • Dennis Wilson • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink

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